Classical Electrodynamics captures Schwinger's inimitable lecturing
style, in which everything flows inexorably from what has gone
before. Novel elements of the approach include the immediate
inference of Maxwell's equations from Coulomb's law and (Galilean)
relativity, the use of action and stationary principles, the
central role of Green's functions both in statics and dynamics,
and, throughout, the integration of mathematics and physics. Thus,
physical problems in electrostatics are used to develop the
properties of Bessel functions and spherical harmonics. The latter
portion of the book is devoted to radiation, with rather complete
treatments of synchrotron radiation and diffraction, and the
formulation of the mode decomposition for waveguides and
scattering. Consequently, the book provides the student with a
thorough grounding in electrodynamics in particular, and in
classical field theory in general, subjects with enormous practical
applications, and which are essential prerequisites for the study
of quantum field theory.An essential resource for both physicists
and their students, the book includes a ?Reader's Guide,? which
describes the major themes in each chapter, suggests a possible
path through the book, and identifies topics for inclusion in, and
exclusion from, a given course, depending on the instructor's
preference. Carefully constructed problems complement the material
of the text, and introduce new topics. The book should be of great
value to all physicists, from first-year graduate students to
senior researchers, and to all those interested in electrodynamics,
field theory, and mathematical physics.The text for the graduate
classical electrodynamics course was left unfinished upon Julian
Schwinger's death in 1994, but was completed by his coauthors, who
have brilliantly recreated the excitement of Schwinger's novel
approach.
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